Introducing Encore
The one you
almost met.
Same bar. Or the gym, or that café you both go to. You caught eyes, or you talked and never got a name, and then you both left. Encore finds the people who were actually there.
New York first. Every application read by a person.
How it works
Three steps. Nothing else to learn.
- 01
You crossed paths
A café at eight. A bar at midnight. The gym, on a Tuesday, when neither of you looked your best. You noticed each other, and then you both left.
- 02
You log the room
Open Encore, log where you were. It scopes the search to the same place during the same hour.
- 03
You reconnect
If they remembered you too, you match. You take it from there.
What Encore is
Not another swipe app.
Encore is built around something that's already happened — a real room, a real hour, two people who noticed each other. No infinite scroll. No strangers from across the city. Just the people your own life already put in front of you.
Private by default
Your moment stays yours.
Your check-ins are never public. You only appear to people who were in the same room as you, during the same hours — and to no one else. We never share your location.
Applications open
Encore opens in New York first.
The waitlist is over. Encore is small on purpose — apply, and a person reads it. If it's a yes, you'll hear from us by email.
Questions
Things people ask.
Encore is a mobile app for reconnecting with someone you crossed paths with in real life — the person you caught eyes with at the bar, or talked to at the gym and never got a name. You log where you were, Encore looks for overlap with people who were there at the same time, and if there's mutual interest, you match.
Most dating apps show you everyone who could theoretically be a match. Encore only shows you people you were actually in the same room as. There's no infinite scroll. No strangers from across the city. The person who was actually there with you is the only person Encore is interested in helping you find.
Yes. Encore only works when both people log the same place around the same time. It isn't a way to track someone down — it's a way to re-find someone who was already noticing you back.
Your check-ins are never public, and we never reveal who's at a venue. The only people who can ever see you are people who logged the same place during the same window — to them you can appear as a possible match. Nobody who wasn't there sees you at all. For the full breakdown, read the privacy policy.